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Santiago's stock market surged Monday after a far-right fiscal conservative and a left-wing former student activist dominated Chile's presidential election and will vie next month to become the South…
A far-right fiscal conservative and a left-wing former student activist are to vie to become president of Chile next month, two years after anti-inequality protests that set the country on the path to constitutional change.
Jose Antonio Kast, 55, and Gabriel Boric, 35, took a convincing lead over five rivals in a first voting round on Sunday to pass to the runoff on Dec. 19.
Kast of the far-right Republican Party took almost 28 percent of the vote, according to a near-complete count, followed closely by leftist lawmaker Boric of the Approve Dignity alliance with more than 25 percent.
The closest other
SANTIAGO - Santiago's stock market surged Monday after a far-right fiscal conservative and a left-wing former student activist dominated Chile's presidential election and will vie next month to become the South American country's new leader.